Robert Byrd News

Among fiscal Puritans of the U.S. capital, and publications seeking the easy revelation, off-the-wall earmarks proposed by members of Congress have proved to be manna from heaven.

Breaking News>>> Senator Byrd has been released from the hospital. More than $13-million for Improved Energy Efficiency in State Buildings Posted Tuesday, June 30, 2009 ; 10:32 AM Money is awarded through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act WASHINGTON -- Senators Jay Rockefeller and Robert C. Byrd, together with Congressmen Nick J. Rahall ...

Sen. Robert Byrd is out of the hospital and back home again. That is great news.

ST. PAUL, Minn. - Al Franken outlasted Norm Coleman in an eight-month recount and courtroom saga to win a seat in the U.S. Senate, giving Democrats control of 60 seats - the critical number needed to overcome Republican filibusters.

The Minnesota Supreme Court has ruled today that Democrat Al Franken has won the states disputed Senate seat following an eight-month long fight against former Republican Senator Norm Coleman, June 30, 2009.

West Virginia's two U.S. senators Monday had reservations over the climate change bill that narrowly passed the House of Representatives on Friday.

For years, Sen.-designate Al Franken graced television and movie screens as the character Stuart Smalley.

Sen. Robert Byrd's office says he's been released from the hospital and is at his Washington-area home recuperating from a more-than monthlong illness.

Sen. Robert Byrd, seen here on Inauguration Day, is now out of the hospital, but it's not clear when he'll be able to return to work .

Breaking News>>> Senator Byrd has been released from the hospital. Bray Cary is president and chief executive officer of West Virginia Media, a multi-media company that serves 90 percent of the state.

Sweeping legislation that would create the the first national limits on carbon emissions from power plants and refineries in a so-called cap and trade system narrowly passed the House 219 to 212.

June 28, 2009 GUEST COMMENTARY: How Do Higher Energy Costs Help Open Idle Steel Mills or Struggling Auto Makers? By Alice Click How do higher prices at the pump and skyrocketing electric bills help families struggling through a recession that here looks more like a depression? The Obama administration scored a major legislative victory in making ...

U.S. Senate apologizes for slavery and segregation: http://bit.ly/G46Cu. Bob Byrd breaks down on Senate floor.

Sen. Patrick Leahy, who has served 34 years in the U.S. Senate, wants to make it 40.

Get over yourself. We are here to stay. There will be more to come next year, and the year after that.

If Congress were like school, Rep. Nick Rahall, D-W.Va., would get a perfect attendance certificate.

The fiscal 2010 Homeland Security appropriations bill is on deck this week in the House and Senate as congressional Democratic leaders try to keep to their goal of finishing all 12 annual spending bills before of the end of the fiscal year, Sept.

"Public officials aren't supposed to change their minds," he writes. "But I firmly believe that it's important to keep learning.

Let us sing the praises of - but not build a monument to - U.S. Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Austin. McCaul has taken as his cause something you'd like as your cause.

Staff members from U.S. Senator Robert Byrd's Office are visiting mountaintop mining sites throughout West Virginia as part of, what those with the Senator's Office call, a three day fact finding tour.